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THE SYNDICATE REPORT
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Bell Information Transmittal No.5
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Featuring:
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Agents in Unix (n.wk 8\7)
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Memory Management System (it.iam 8\11)
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Argo, Microtel, & Litel Merging (m.am 8\11)
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Fiber Optics & Competition (e.i.nl 8\11)
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UNISTAR Bureau (n.mkt 8\15)
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C-LAN (n.mkt 8\15)
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Written by The Sensei
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Released Aug. 26 1986
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The Syndicate Report is stictly Bell orientated information. Without some
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background, reading in this material could cause a problem to understand.
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AGENTS IN UNIX:
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Profiles of firms participating in Distributor Marketing's three-month--
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old sales agent program are now accessible in the Company's UNIX electronic
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information system.
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The profiles list the sales territory, product line, assigned
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distributor consultant, address, branch office locations and the name of a
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contact person at each authorized agency.
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The Unix data base also includes an explanation of the sales lead
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referral program, along with the "800" number employees should call to get a
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sales lead passed on to the agent.
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To review this information, UNIX users should begin at the main AIM menu
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and select Option 2 -- News Bulletins. Next select Option 8 -- Special
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Menu, and finally Option 7 -- Sales Agent Information.
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MMS - MEMORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM:
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MMS is a new machanized system that plays an integral part in the
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mechanized process. This Trasmittal is to introduce the new system and provide
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information regarding its purpose, benefits and relationships to other systems
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in the mechanized provisioning process.
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order activity into the ESS switch. The order activity entered through MMS are
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PIC selections and changes, Custom Calling, and TTS for non complex orders.
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Future enhancements to MMS will handle Centrex and Multiline Hunt orders.
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As MMS is deployed in each wire center, the RCMAC clerks will no
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longer be required to manually type those order activities into the ESS
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switches. The switches will accept and store the information and mechanically
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"flip the switch" between 1 AM and 2 AM on the due date.
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Since MMS is driven by COSMOS output, it should be transparent to the
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Installation organization.
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ARGO, MICROTEL, AND LITEL MERGING:
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It is not easy for a tiny telephone company to compete in the long--
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distance market with giants like AT&T, MCI, and the recently fored U S Sprint.
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Together, the top three companies have more than 90% of the $50 billion-plus
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U.S. long distance market. So three of the smallest competitors -- Argo,
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Litel, and Microtel -- have decided it's time to band together to survive.
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With the merger of GTE Corp.'s Sprint Communications Corp. and U.S. Telecom
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Inc. into the $1.8 billion U.S. Sprint, Litel President warns pf a "comming
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oligopoly" of massive long-distance companies. Mictrotel and Litel operate
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fiber-optic phone networks in the South and Midwest, while Argo runs a
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satellite-based national long-distance network for meduim-to- large business.
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The as-yet unnamed company should do about $150 million in sales this year.
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FIBER OPTICS & COMPETITION:
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With all this talk about fiber optic cables, some experts have been
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led to predict the demise of the satellite communication business. But the
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satellite vendors are not about to die. Now they plan to steal a page from
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cellular technology. Rather than launching several satellites that cover the
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entire U.S. with a single broad-beam signal, they are developing a "bird" with
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multiple antennas. Each antenna will serve one of the series of overlapping
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circles that cover the country. Because focusing the signal in a tight beam
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will increase the strength of the signal, smaller ground antennas will be able
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to pick them up. Earth stations could shrink to 1/10th their current size,
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thus costing tens of thousands of dollars instead of tens of millions. This
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would enable more companies to cut their communications bills by building
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their own earth stations and bypassing more costly land lines. Think about
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the possibitilies of satellite/cellular/wrist-radio technology.
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UNISTAR BUREAU:
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UNISTAR (Universal Single Call Telecommunications Answering & Repair)
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Bureau is one of Communications Services' newest marketing services.
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Unistar's purpose is if a person has any kind of telephone trouble, they
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call Unistar. A person does not have to know whether it's in their set or in
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their line. Just make onecall to Unistar and they do the rest. Unistar also
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provides people with customized reports and data on their service, including
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the number of repair calls, type of trouble found - weekly or monthly as they
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wish. Unistar employees take the calls, isolate trouble, test lines, and
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dispatch repair personnel if necessary. Also Unistar deals with vendors, other
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telcos and customers, acting as liaison and coordinator between all affected
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parties.
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Unistar has not had it's grand opening as of yet. Unistar will be
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expected in major cities by Sept.
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C-LAN:
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By transmitting and receiving at high-frequency -- above voice range
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-- it's possible to transmit data simultaneously with voice over the
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same line with no interference. The advantage, is that one cicuit will handle
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both voice and data.
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In late August, Bell will begin marketing voice/data lines to some of
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its Centron and Centrex customers in selected areas. C-LAN will be only
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available to people served be IA ESS offices in downtown areas.
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Bell calls this new voice/data feature C-LAN -- an acronym for Centron-
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Centrex Local Area Network. C-LAN is extremely well-suited for small, medium
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and large data users. CLAN is capable of transmitting data at rates as high as
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19.2 kilobits per second -- 16 times faster than the standard 1200 baud rate.
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Instead of modems, users use on-premise multiplexors, which translate
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a digital-bit stream to a higher-then-voice frequency.
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There are two types of service: 1- Private Facility Pooling (PFP), is
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simply incorporating CLAN over facilities. People who routinely send data
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between two points can use one line for voice and data. Initiating data
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transmission is as simple as keying in a three-digit access code. For
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subscribers with many users, a statistical multiplexor, or stat mux, can
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provide numerous transmission channels, both in the central office and to the
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subscriber premise. 2- Network Modem Pooling (NMP), uses the direct distance
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dial network to link CLAN users to a variety of computers and data bases
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throughout the country. Instead of each user owning a costly modem, the
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central office maintains a modem pool, which is shared by a number of sub-
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scribers -- a powerful enhancement to Centron/Centrex service.
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If there is any question to the information in this file, contact the
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author. Now can be found on the Private Sector 20 Meg, 3/1200 baud
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system at (201) 366-4431 (2600 Magazine Bulliten Board).
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This concludes this Transmittal No. 5 presented by:
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The Sensei - The Syndicate Report
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The information in this file is copyrighted and all rights reserved. This file
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may, in whole or in part be copied, photocopied, reprinted, translated, recuded
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to any electronic medium or machine readable form or reproduction in any manner
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as long as no part or parts of information is tampered without prior consent in
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writing from The Sensei, Syndicate Report Aug. 26 1986.
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